Al Krumm

{{Short description|American baseball player (1865–1937)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Al Krumm

|image=Al Krumm.jpg

|caption=Pitcher Al Krumm wearing a Washington Senators baseball outfit

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Right

|birth_date=January 13, 1865

|birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

|death_date=June 15, 1937 (aged 72)

|death_place=San Diego, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 17

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1889}}

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Alleghenys

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 17

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1889}}

|finalteam=Pittsburgh Alleghenys

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–1

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=10.00

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=4

|teams=

}}

Albert Krumm (January 13, 1865 – June 15, 1937) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1889 with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and had his single major league start on May 17 of that year.{{cite book | last=Nemec | first=D. | title=The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-7864-9044-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFNK7be-KGcC&pg=PA52 | access-date=2019-10-31 | page=52}}

Primarily a steelworker, he had a reputation as a "troublemaker." He was in spring training with the Washington Senators in 1895 and pitched in an exhibition game with Varney Anderson but did not make the team.{{cite web | title=The Washington times. (Washington, D.C.) 1894-1895, March 20, 1895, Image 5 | website=Chronicling America « Library of Congress | issue=1895/03/20 | date=2008-08-04 | issn=2151-5263 | url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062244/1895-03-20/ed-1/seq-5/ | access-date=2019-11-01}} Krumm walked ten batters during his first game with the Alleghenys. He stayed with the team until July but never pitched again.

He was born in Pennsylvania and died in San Diego, California.

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